netdev - Re: BQL support in gianfar causes network hickup

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Message-ID: <20121126100111.GA3728@mac.home>
Date:	Mon, 26 Nov 2012 11:01:11 +0100
From:	Tino Keitel <tino.keitel@...ei.de>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	"Keitel, Tino (ALC NetworX GmbH)" <Tino.Keitel@...networx.de>
Subject: Re: BQL support in gianfar causes network hickup

On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 15:43:36 -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:

[...]

> Hmm, I wonder if BQL makes a particular bug showing more often.
> 
> I see gianfar uses a very small watchdog_timeo of 1 second, while many
> drivers use 5 seconds.
> 
> What happens if you change this to 5 seconds ?

I still got the trace and a failing ptp client.

Regards,
Tino
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